- Three Dispatch Riders Arrested in Abuja for Drug Trafficking – NDLEA
- A total of 149.8 grams of Canadian Loud, a potent strain of cannabis, was recovered
- Two other suspect arrested
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has apprehended three dispatch riders accused of distributing illegal drugs within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
Eko Hot Blog reports that in a statement released on Sunday, NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said that officers carried out intelligence driven stop and search operations on Wednesday, July 30, in the Gwarimpa, Jahi, and Galadimawa areas of the FCT.
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He identified the arrested individuals as Sabo Sule, 24; Samuel Nnamdi, 28; and Idris Jibrin, 28. A total of 149.8 grams of Canadian Loud, a potent strain of cannabis, was recovered from them.
“Two other suspects, Aliyu Abubakar, 25, and Adekunle Agbabiaka, 30, were arrested along the Abaji-Gwagwalada expressway with 91.1 kg of skunk, a strain of cannabis, on Saturday, August 2,” he said.
Mr Babafemi reported that in Lagos, NDLEA officers acting on intelligence arrested Joseph Michael on Saturday in the Mushin area with 3.3 kilograms of Colorado, a synthetic type of cannabis.
He added that another suspected drug dealer, Ibrahim Sulaiman, was arrested on Friday in the Iwaya area of Yaba with 16.5 litres of a drug-laced mixture known as skuchies.
According to him, on the same day, no fewer than 100,000 tramadol capsules were seized from a 37-year-old suspect, Hussein Yusuf, at an NDLEA checkpoint along the Vandeikya Ogoja road in Benue State.
In Edo State, NDLEA operatives carried out a raid on a warehouse in Ekpoma, arresting a suspect, William Alabi, 44, and recovering 233.5 kilograms of skunk.
Mr Babafemi also noted that NDLEA commands and units across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) awareness campaigns during the past week, targeting schools, religious centres, workplaces, and communities.
Activities included a WADA sensitisation lecture for students and staff of Ciroma Ibrahim Islamiyya School in Potiskum, Yobe, and the Sultan Maccido Institute for Quran and General Studies in Wamakko, Sokoto.
Others engaged in the campaign were metro drivers from Borno Express Transport Services in Maiduguri, Borno State, and worshippers at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Abakpa Nike, Enugu State.
Additionally, the Osun State command of NDLEA paid an advocacy visit under the WADA initiative to the Oluwo of Iwo land, His Imperial Majesty Oba Abdurasheed Adewale Akanbi, among others.
